DP History Questionbank

Evaluate the role of foreign intervention on two independence movements in the Americas.

Discuss the influence of neocolonialism in the development of two nations in the Americas between 1865 and 1929.

“The Great Depression of 1929 presented Latin America with opportunities as well as problems.” Discuss.

Evaluate the extent to which the domestic policies of one Latin American leader during the period from 1945 to 1979 were populist.

Evaluate the impact of one military regime in Latin America between 1945 and 1979.
Note: Castro’s Cuba is not an appropriate example for this question.

Evaluate the main challenges to the establishment of political systems in the emerging nations of Latin America.

“The Mexican Revolution was not started by the oppressed; it began with a division within the dominant elite.” Discuss.

Evaluate the reasons for, and the consequences of, Nixon’s covert operations in Chile.

Evaluate the factors that led to the emergence of a counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s in the Americas.

“1863 was the military and moral turning point of the US Civil War.” Discuss.

Evaluate the reasons for the emergence and development of radical African American activism in the 1960s and 1970s.

Evaluate the impact of “indigenismo” and nativism in Latin America in the period from 1865 to 1929.

“Whether it was called the Big Stick, Dollar Diplomacy or Moral Diplomacy, the impact of United States foreign policy towards Latin America was virtually the same.” Discuss.

To what extent was hemispheric cooperation between countries in the Americas successful between 1933 and 1945?

Evaluate the impact of Reagan’s foreign policy on Latin America.

Compare and contrast the independence movements in two countries in Latin America.

Evaluate the arguments used to oppose Canadian Confederation.

To what extent did the expansion of slavery contribute to the outbreak of the US Civil War?

Examine the long and short-term causes of the Spanish–American War (1898).

Examine the impact of the Mexican revolution on the arts and education.

Compare and contrast the causes of the Great Depression in two countries in the Americas.

Examine the social impact of the Second World War on two of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, women, minorities.

“After 1945, the foreign policy of countries in the Americas was largely shaped by the Cold War.” Discuss with reference to either Canada or one Latin American country.

Discuss the social and economic effects of globalization on one country in the Americas during the period from 1980 to 2000.